- One year of Pope Francis: A priest reflects
- Report: Benedict Critiqued Pope Francis' Interview On Gay Marriage, Abortion
- The World's 50 Greatest Leaders—He's #1.
- Pope Francis denounces 'evil, blood-stained' mafia
- Catholicism and women: The winds of change
- Pope hits out at criticism of Church over sexual abuse
- Pope appoints former child victim to church group on sex abuse—"Pope Francis on Saturday named a woman molested by a priest as a child to be part of a core group to help the Catholic Church fight the clerical sexual abuse of minors that has haunted it for over two decades."
- Former Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton priest who was named as a child abuser now is a vicar general in Paraguay
- Cosmos Squashes Creationism Under the Weight of Evidence—And science deniers are freaking out.
- Oklahoma TV station censors evolution talk on Cosmos reboot—They claim it was unintended, unlike what happened before.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Really Starting To Scare Conservatives
- Creationists Demand Airtime On 'Cosmos' For The Sake Of Balance—Genesis is not a documentary.
- How Did Creationists Respond to Yesterday's Big News in Support of the Big Bang Theory?—With a river in Egypt.
- From creationism to ESP: Why believers ignore science—"A journalist's investigation of strange beliefs and the people who hold them leaves him questioning himself." Salon
- Jewish school redacts exam to remove evolution questions
- 5 disturbing ways the religious right is trying to rewrite American history—"Disregarding the separation of church and state is just the beginning..." Salon
- Republican Files Bill to Make the Bible Louisiana's Official State Book—Korans need not apply.
- Object to biased resolution condemning only Christian persecution
- Buddhist Student, Religious Liberty Prevail In Louisiana
- Israel ends ultra-Orthodox military service exemptions
- If Hobby Lobby Wins, It Will Be Even Worse For Birth Control Access Than You Think
- My Employer Shamed Me for Using Birth Control
- A Young Mother In Mississippi Could Face Life In Prison For Giving Birth To A Stillborn Child
- GOP Senate Candidate Drops Strict Anti-Abortion Position—"This was a bad idea driven by good intentions. I was not right. I can't support personhood now. I can't support personhood going forward. To do it again would be a mistake."
- Why Can’t the FDA Fix Outdated Birth Control Labels?—"Contraceptives like Plan B don’t prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in a woman’s body. But their labels still say they do—and they’ve become a tool for conservative activists."
- Life-sized fetus causes cafeteria controversy at Connecticut school—Was it because she had a modest proposal to share?
- Faced With Rising STD Rates, Louisiana Lawmaker Says Lack Of Sex Ed Is 'Really A Form Of Child Abuse'
- My Neighborhood Makes It Easier to Get Pregnant Than To Go To College
- Federal judge strikes down Michigan's gay marriage ban—Along with it a fake anti-gay research strategy bankrolled by the religious right. Regnerus' testimony was "entirely unbelievable and not worthy of serious consideration." Some couples were able to get married before the temporary stay was issued.
- Wave of Appeals Expected to Turn the Tide on Same-Sex Marriage Bans—"Legal experts predict that several of the circuit courts, which hold sway over a group of states, will rule that state laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman are unconstitutional." NYT
- The Religious Right's Failed Gay-Marriage Backlash—"In states like Arizona, social conservatives hoped to push back against the rising gay-rights tide, but lawmakers and the public sided against them."
- Founder of Westboro Baptist Church, Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. dies—Maddow says his hatred backfired.
- Wyoming GOP lawmaker: Promiscuous gays weaponizing AIDS for a 'national suicide'
- Parents threaten to sink Elyria Schools renewal—"The creation of a gay and straight group for students at Elyria High School has outraged a couple of longtime supporters who are now encouraging their friends to reject a must-needed renewal levy on the May ballot."
- Parents fury as pork sausages are banned from the school menu and replaced with halal meat
- Islamic law is adopted by British legal chiefs—"Solicitors told how to draw up Sharia-style wills penalising widows and non-believers."
- Saudi Arabia bans 50 'blasphemous' and 'inappropriate' children's names—"The list of names contradicting the Kingdom’s 'religious and cultural norms' includes several foreign names."
- Shock for critics: Muslim judge's non-sharia ruling—"New Jersey Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed ruled in favor of the mother, and last week, his precedent-setting written opinion was released. That the Muslim judge sided with a woman in a case with a gender dispute might come as a surprise to some of his previous critics."
- ABC Family Pulls Plug on 'Alice in Arabia' After Muslim Org Backlash—"The show's premise centered on an American teen kidnapped by her Saudi Arabian family after tragedy befalls her parents." And here I thought it was a continuation of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
- Legoland closes resort hotel following threats—"[A] private fun day organised by the Muslim Research and Development Foundation" was cancelled due to "threats from far right organisations".
- Lawsuit filed after praying family escorted from Empire State Building
- Nigeria: Attacks on Christians Kill at Least 100
- Hindu temple set on fire in Pakistan over blasphemy
- Woman branded witch, mercilessly killed in Chhattisgarh
- Catholic Leader: I Wasn't Saying That I 'Literally' Wanted Liberal Professors Shot
- Nine unopened Dead Sea Scrolls found—Contents to be added to the Dead Sea Scroll digital archive.
- Vatican Library to digitise archives with Japanese support
- Russell Crowe film 'Noah' edited to appease Christians upset by 'historical inaccuracies'
